Poems of American History

POEMS OF AMERICAN HISTORY PART I THE COLONIAL PERIOD America , Arthur Cleveland Coxe 2 CHAPTER I The Discovery of America The Story of Vinland , Sidney Lanier 3 The Norsemen , John Greenleaf Whittier 4 The Skeleton in Armor , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 6 Prophecy , Luigi Pulci 7 The Inspiration , James Montgomery 8 Columbus , Lydia Huntley Sigourney 9 Columbus to Ferdinand , Philip Freneau 9 Columbus at the Convent , John T. Trowbridge 10 The Final Struggle , Louis James Block 11 Steer, Bold Mariner, On , Friedrich von Schiller 12 The Triumph , Sidney Lanier 12 Columbus , Joaquin Miller 14 The Thanksgiving for America , Hezekiah Butterworth 15 Columbus in Chains , Philip Freneau 17 Columbus Dying , Edna Dean Proctor 18 Columbus , Edward Everett Hale 18 Columbus and the Mayflower , Lord Houghton 18 CHAPTER II In the Wake of Columbus The First Voyage of John Cabot , Unknown 19 The Legend of Waukulla , Hezekiah Butterworth 19 The Fountain of Youth , Hezekiah Butterworth 21 Ponce de Leon , Edith M. Thomas 22 Balboa , Nora Perry 23 With Cortez in Mexico , W. W. Campbell 24 The Lust of Gold , James Montgomery 24 Verazzano , Hezekiah Butterworth 25 Ortiz , Hezekiah Butterworth 26 The Fall of Maubila , Thomas Dunn English 27 Quivíra , Arthur Guiterman 31 Norembega , John Greenleaf Whittier 32 Sir Humphrey Gilbert , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 34 The First American Sailors , Wallace Rice 34 CHAPTER III The Settlement of Virginia The Mystery of Cro-a-tàn , Margaret Junkin Preston 36 John Smith's Approach to Jamestown , James Barron Hope 38 Pocahontas , William Makepeace Thackeray 38 Pocahontas , George Pope Morris 39 Bermudas , Andrew Marvell 39 Newes from Virginia , Richard Rich 40 To the Virginian Voyage , Michael Drayton 42 The Marriage of Pocahontas , Mrs. M. M. Webster 43 The Last Meeting of Pocahontas and the Great Captain , Margaret Junkin Preston 43 The Burning of Jamestown , Thomas Dunn English 44 Bacon's Epitaph , Unknown 45 Ode to Jamestown , James Kirke Paulding 46 The Downfall of Piracy , Benjamin Franklin 48 From Potomac to Merrimac , Edward Everett Hale 49 CHAPTER IV The Dutch at New Amsterdam Henry Hudson's Quest , Burton Egbert Stevenson 50 The Death of Colman , Thomas Frost 50 Adrian Block's Song , Edward Everett Hale 51 The Praise of New Netherland , Jacob Steendam 52 The Complaint of New Amsterdam , Jacob Steendam 53 Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call , Edmund Clarence Stedman 54 CHAPTER V The Settlement of New England The Word of God to Leyden came , Jeremiah Eames Rankin 56 Song of the Pilgrims , Thomas Cogswell Upham 57 Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers , Felicia Hemans 57 The First Proclamation of Miles Standish , Margaret Junkin Preston 58 The Mayflower , Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth 59 The Peace Message , Burton Egbert Stevenson 60 The First Thanksgiving Day , Margaret Junkin Preston 60 The War-Token , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 61 Five Kernels of Corn , Hezekiah Butterworth 62 The Expedition to Wessagusset , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 63 New England's Annoyances , Unknown 65 The Pilgrim Fathers , William Wordsworth 66 The Pilgrim Fathers , John Pierpont 66 The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor , Hezekiah Butterworth 67 The First Thanksgiving , Clinton Scollard 68 New England's Growth , William Bradford 69 The Assault on the Fortress , Timothy Dwight 70 Death Song , Alonzo Lewis 70 Our Country , Julia Ward Howe 71 CHAPTER VI Religious Persecutions in New England Prologue , from "John Endicott," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 71 Roger Williams , Hezekiah Butterworth 72 God makes a Path , Roger Williams 72 Canonicus and Roger Williams , Unknown 73 Anne Hutchinson's Exile , Edward Everett Hale 73 John Underhill , John Greenleaf Whittier 74 The Proclamation , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 76 Cassandra Southwick , John Greenleaf Whittier 77 The King's Missive , John Greenleaf Whittier 80 CHAPTER VII King Philip's War and the Witchcraft Delusion The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook , Edward Everett Hale 82 The Great Swamp Fight , Caroline Hazard 83 On a Fortification at Boston begun by Women , Benjamin Tompson 85 The Sudbury Fight , Wallace Rice 85 King Philip's Last Stand , Clinton Scollard 88 Prologue , from "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 88 Salem , Edmund Clarence Stedman 89 The Death of Goody Nurse , Rose Terry Cooke 90 A Salem Witch , Ednah Proctor Clarke 91 The Trial , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 92 Giles Corey , Unknown 96 Mistress Hale of Beverly , Lucy Larcom 97 CHAPTER VIII The Struggle for the Continent St. John , John Greenleaf Whittier 99 The Battle of La Prairie , William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall 101 The Sack of Deerfield , Thomas Dunn English 102 Pentucket , John Greenleaf Whittier 105 Lovewell's Fight , Unknown 106 Lovewell's Fight , Unknown 108 The Battle of Lovell's Pond , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 109 Louisburg , Unknown 110 A Ballad of the French Fleet , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 110 The British Lyon roused , Stephen Tilden 111 The Song of Braddock's Men , Unknown 112 Braddock's Fate , Stephen Tilden 112 Ned Braddock , John Williamson Palmer 114 Ode to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania , Unknown 114 The Embarkation , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 115 On the Defeat at Ticonderoga or Carilong , Unknown 117 On the Late Successful Expedition against Louisbourg , Francis Hopkinson 118 Fort Duquesne , Florus B. Plimpton 119 Hot stuff , Edward Botwood 121 How Stands the Glass around , James Wolfe 121 Brave Wolfe , Unknown 122 The Death of Wolfe , Unknown 123 The Captive's Hymn , Edna Dean Proctor 123 A Prophecy , Arthur Lee 125 PART II THE REVOLUTION Flawless his Heart , James Russell Lowell 128 CHAPTER I The Coming of Discontent The Virginia Song , Unknown 129 The World turned Upside Down , Unknown 130 A Song , Unknown 130 The Liberty Pole , Unknown 131 The British Grenadier , Unknown 132 Crispus Attucks , John Boyle O'Reilly 132 Unhappy Boston , Paul Revere 134 Alamance , Seymour W. Whiting 135 A New Song called the Gaspee , Unknown 135 A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party , Oliver Wendell Holmes 136 A New Song , Unknown 137 How we became a Nation , Harriet Prescott Spofford 138 A Proclamation , Unknown 138 The Blasted Herb , Mesech Weare 139 Epigram , Unknown 140 The Daughter's Rebellion , Francis Hopkinson 140 On the Snake depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers , Unknown 140 Free America , Joseph Warren 140 Liberty Tree , Thomas Paine 141 The Mother Country , Benjamin Franklin 142 Pennsylvania Song , Unknown 142 Maryland Resolves , Unknown 142 Massachusetts Song of Liberty , Mercy Warren 143 Epigram , Unknown 144 To the Boston Women , Unknown 144 Prophecy , Gulian Verplanck 144 CHAPTER II The Bursting of the Storm Paul Revere's Ride , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 144 What's in a Name , Helen F. More 146 Lexington , Sidney Lanier 146 Lexington , Oliver Wendell Holmes 147 New England's Chevy Chase , Edward Everett Hale 148 The King's Own Regulars , Unknown 150 Morgan Stanwood , Hiram Rich 151 The Minute-Men of Northboro , Wallace Rice 152 Lexington , John Greenleaf Whittier 153 The Rising , Thomas Buchanan Read 154 The Prize of the Margaretta , Will Carleton 155 The Mecklenburg Declaration , William C. Elam 156 A Song , Unknown 157 CHAPTER III The Colonists take the Offensive The Green Mountain Boys , William Cullen Bryant 157 The Surprise at Ticonderoga , Mary A. P. Stansbury 157 The Yankee's Return from Camp , Edward Bangs 159 Tom Gage's Proclamation , Unknown 160 The Eve of Bunker Hill , Clinton Scollard 161 Warren's Address to the American Soldiers , John Pierpont 161 The Ballad of Bunker Hill , Edward Everett Hale 162 Bunker Hill , George H. Calvert 162 Grandmother's Story of Bunker-Hill Battle , Oliver Wendell Holmes 163 The Death of Warren , Epes Sargent 166 The Battle of Bunker Hill , Unknown 167 The New-Come Chief , James Russell Lowell 168 The Trip to Cambridge , Unknown 169 War and Washington , Jonathan Mitchell Sewall 170 The Bombardment of Bristol , Unknown 171 Montgomery at Quebec , Clinton Scollard 171 A Song , Unknown 172 A Poem containing Some Remarks on the Present War , Unknown 173 Mugford's Victory , John White Chadwick 174 Off from Boston , Unknown 176 CHAPTER IV Independence Emancipation from British Dependence , Philip Freneau 176 Rodney's Ride , Unknown 177 American Independence , Francis Hopkinson 178 The Fourth of July , John Pierpont 179 Independence Day , Royall Tyler 179 On Independence , Jonathan Mitchell Sewall 179 The American Patriot's Prayer , Unknown 180 Columbia , Timothy Dwight 180 CHAPTER V The First Campaign The Boasting of Sir Peter Parker , Clinton Scollard 181 A New War Song by Sir Peter Parker , Unknown 182 The Maryland Battalion , John Williamson Palmer 183 Haarlem Heights , Arthur Guiterman 183 Nathan Hale , Unknown 185 Nathan Hale , Francis Miles Finch 186 The Ballad of Sweet P , Virginia Woodward Cloud 186 Across the Delaware , Will Carleton 188 The Battle of Trenton , Unknown 188 Trenton and Princeton , Unknown 188 Assunpink and Princeton , Thomas Dunn English 189 Seventy-Six , William Cullen Bryant 191 Betsy's Battle Flag , Minna Irving 191 The American Flag , Joseph Rodman Drake 192 CHAPTER VI " The Fate of Sir Jack Brag " The Rifleman's Song at Bennington , Unknown 193 The Marching Song of Stark's Men , Edward Everett Hale 193 Parson Allen's Ride , Wallace Bruce 194 The Battle of Bennington , Thomas P. Rodman 195 Bennington , W. H. Babcock 196 The Battle of Oriskany , Charles D. Helmer 198 Saint Leger , Clinton Scollard 199 The Progress of Sir Jack Brag , Unknown 200 Arnold at Stillwater , Thomas Dunn English 200 The Fate of John Burgoyne , Unknown 202 Saratoga's Song , Unknown 202 CHAPTER VII The Second Stage Lord North's Recantation , Unknown 204 A New Ballad , Unknown 205 General Howe's Letter , Unknown 205 Carmen Bellicosum , Guy Humphreys McMaster 206 Valley Forge , Thomas Buchanan Read 207 British Valor displayed; or, The Battle of the Kegs , Francis Hopkinson 208 The Little Black-Eyed Rebel , Will Carleton 209 The Battle of Monmouth , Unknown 210 The Battle of Monmouth , Thomas Dunn English 211 Molly Pitcher , Kate Brownlee Sherwood 213 Molly Pitcher , Laura E. Richards 213 Yankee Doodle's Expedition to Rhode Island , Unknown 214 Running the Blockade , Nora Perry 215 Betty Zane , Thomas Dunn English 216 The Wyoming Massacre , Uriah Terry 217 CHAPTER VIII The War on the Water The Cruise of the Fair American , Unknown 219 On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle , Philip Freneau 220 The Yankee Privateer , Arthur Hale 221 Paul Jones , Unknown 222 The Yankee Man-of-War , Unknown 223 Paul Jones—A New Song , Unknown 224 Paul Jones , Unknown 224 The Bonhomme Richard and Serapis , Philip Freneau 225 Barney's Invitation , Philip Freneau 226 Song on Captain Barney's Victory , Philip Freneau 227 The South Carolina , Unknown 228 CHAPTER IX New York and the "Neutral Ground" Sir Henry Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees , Philip Freneau 229 The Storm of Stony Point , Arthur Guiterman 230 Wayne at Stony Point , Clinton Scollard 230 Aaron Burr's Wooing , Edmund Clarence Stedman 231 The Modern Jonas , Unknown 232 Caldwell of Springfield , Bret Harte 232 The Cow-Chace , John André 233 Brave Paulding and the Spy , Unknown 237 Arnold the Vile Traitor , Unknown 238 Epigram , Unknown 238 André's Request to Washington , Nathaniel Parker Willis 238 André , Charlotte Fiske Bates 239 Sergeant Champe , Unknown 239 A New Song , Joseph Stansbury 240 The Lords of the Main , Joseph Stansbury 241 The Royal Adventurer , Philip Freneau 241 The Descent on Middlesex , Peter St. John 242 CHAPTER X The War in the South Hymns of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 245 About Savannah , Unknown 245 A Song about Charleston , Unknown 246 The Swamp Fox , William Gilmore Simms 247 Song of Marion's Men , William Cullen Bryant 248 Macdonald's Raid , Paul Hamilton Hayne 248 Sumter's Band , J. W. Simmons 250 The Battle of King's Mountain , Unknown 251 The Battle of the Cowpens , Thomas Dunn English 252 The Battle of Eutaw , William Gilmore Simms 254 Eutaw Springs , Philip Freneau 255 The Dance , Unknown 256 Cornwallis's Surrender , Unknown 256 The Surrender of Cornwallis , Unknown 257 News From Yorktown , Lewis Worthington Smith 257 An Ancient Prophecy , Philip Freneau 258 CHAPTER XI Peace On Sir Henry Clinton's Recall , Unknown 259 On the Departure of the British from Charleston , Philip Freneau 260 On the British King's Speech , Philip Freneau 261 England and America in 1782 , Alfred Tennyson 262 On Disbanding the Army , David Humphreys 262 Evacuation of New York by the British , Unknown 262 Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, on his Way to his Residence in Virginia , Philip Freneau 263 The American Soldier's Hymn , Unknown 264 Thanksgiving Hymn , Unknown 264 Land of the Wilful Gospel , Sidney Lanier 265 PART III THE PERIOD OF GROWTH " Oh Mother of a Mighty Race ," William Cullen Bryant 268 CHAPTER I The New Nation A Radical Song of 1786 , St. John Honeywood 269 The Federal Convention , Unknown 269 To the Federal Convention , Timothy Dwight 270 The New Roof , Francis Hopkinson 270 Convention Song , Unknown 271 The Federal Constitution , William Milns 272 The First American Congress , Joel Barlow 273 Washington , James Jeffrey Roche 274 The Vow of Washington , John Greenleaf Whittier 274 On the Death of Benjamin Franklin , Philip Freneau 275 George Washington , John Hall Ingham 275 Washington , Lord Byron 276 Adams and Liberty , Robert Treat Paine 276 Hail Columbia , Joseph Hopkinson 277 Ye Sons of Columbia , Thomas Green Fessenden 278 Truxton's Victory , Unknown 279 The Constellation and the Insurgente , Unknown 280 Washington's Monument , Unknown 280 How we burned the Philadelphia , Barrett Eastman 281 Reuben James , James Jeffrey Roche 282 Skipper Ireson's Ride , John Greenleaf Whittier 283 A Plea for Flood Ireson , Charles Timothy Brooks 284 CHAPTER II The Second War with England The Times , Unknown 285 Reparation or War , Unknown 286 Terrapin War , Unknown 286 Farewell, Peace , Unknown 287 Come, ye Lads, who wish to shine , Unknown 287 Hull's Surrender , Unknown 287 The Constitution and the Guerrière , Unknown 288 Halifax Station , Unknown 289 On the Capture of the Guerrière , Philip Freneau 290 Firstfruits in 1812 , Wallace Rice 291 The Battle of Queenstown , William Banker, Jr. 292 The Wasp's Frolic , Unknown 293 The United States and Macedonian , Unknown 293 The United States and Macedonian , Unknown 294 Jack Creamer , James Jeffrey Roche 295 Yankee Thunders , Unknown 296 The General Armstrong , Unknown 296 Capture of Little York , Unknown 298 The Death of General Pike , Laughton Osborn 299 Old Fort Meigs , Unknown 300 The Shannon and the Chesapeake , Thomas Tracy Bouvé 300 Chesapeake and Shannon , Unknown 301 Defeat and Victory , Wallace Rice 302 Enterprise and Boxer , Unknown 302 Perry's Victory , Unknown 303 The Battle of Erie , Unknown 303 Perry's Victory—A Song , Unknown 305 The Fall of Tecumseh , Unknown 305 The Legend of Walbach Tower , George Houghton 306 The Battle of Valparaiso , Unknown 307 The Battle of Bridgewater , Unknown 308 The Hero of Bridgewater , Charles L. S. Jones 309 The Battle of Stonington , Philip Freneau 309 The Ocean-Fight , Unknown 310 The Lost War-Sloop , Edna Dean Proctor 311 On the British Invasion , Philip Freneau 312 The Battle of Lake Champlain , Philip Freneau 312 The Battle of Plattsburg Bay , Clinton Scollard 313 The Battle of Plattsburg , Unknown 314 The Battle of Baltimore , Unknown 315 Fort McHenry , Unknown 316 The Star-Spangled Banner , Francis Scott Key 317 Ye Parliament of England , Unknown 318 The Bower of Peace , Robert Southey 318 Reid at Fayal , John Williamson Palmer 319 The Fight of the Armstrong Privateer , James Jeffrey Roche 319 The Armstrong at Fayal , Wallace Rice 321 Fort Bowyer , Charles L. S. Jones 323 The Battle of New Orleans , Thomas Dunn English 323 Jackson at New Orleans , Wallace Rice 325 To the Defenders of New Orleans , Joseph Rodman Drake 326 The Hunters of Kentucky , Unknown 326 The Constitution's Last Fight , James Jeffrey Roche 327 Sea and Land Victories , Unknown 328 Ode to Peace , Unknown 329 CHAPTER III The West The Settler , Alfred B. Street 329 The Mothers of the West , William Davis Gallagher 330 On the Emigration to America , Philip Freneau 331 John Filson , William Henry Venable 331 Sainclaire's Defeat , Unknown 332 Johnny Appleseed , William Henry Venable 334 The Founders of Ohio , William Henry Venable 335 Blennerhassett's Island , Thomas Buchanan Read 335 The Battle of Muskingum , William Harrison Safford 337 To Aaron Burr, under Trial for High Treason , Sarah Wentworth Morton 338 The Battle of Tippecanoe , Unknown 339 The Tomb of the Brave , Joseph Hutton 339 Sa-cá-ga-we-a , Edna Dean Proctor 340 On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis , Joel Barlow 341 Whitman's Ride for Oregon , Hezekiah Butterworth 342 Discovery of San Francisco Bay , Richard Edward White 343 John Charles Frémont , Charles F. Lummis 345 " The Days of 'Forty-Nine ," Unknown 345 The Old Santa Fé Trail , Richard Burton 346 California , Lydia Huntley Sigourney 346 CHAPTER IV Through Five Administrations Theodosia Burr , John Williamson Palmer 346 On the Death of Commodore Oliver H. Perry , John G. C. Brainard 347 On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake , Fitz-Greene Halleck 348 On Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument , John Pierpont 348 La Fayette , Dolly Madison 349 The Death of Jefferson , Hezekiah Butterworth 349 Old Ironsides , Oliver Wendell Holmes 351 Concord Hymn , Ralph Waldo Emerson 351 The Wreck of the Hesperus , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 351 Old Tippecanoe , Unknown 353 The Death of Harrison , Nathaniel Parker Willis 353 CHAPTER V The War with Mexico The Valor of Ben Milam , Clinton Scollard 354 Ben Milam , William H. Wharton 355 The Men of the Alamo , James Jeffrey Roche 355 The Defence of the Alamo , Joaquin Miller 357 The Fight at San Jacinto , John Williamson Palmer 357 Song of Texas , William Henry Cuyler Hosmer 358 Texas , John Greenleaf Whittier 358 Mr. Hosea Biglow speaks , James Russell Lowell 360 The Guns in the Grass , Thomas Frost 361 Rio Bravo—A Mexican Lament , Charles Fenno Hoffman 362 To Arms , Park Benjamin 363 Monterey , Charles Fenno Hoffman 363 Victor Galbraith , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 364 Buena Vista , Albert Pike 364 The Angels of Buena Vista , John Greenleaf Whittier 366 The Bivouac of the Dead , Theodore O'Hara 368 What Mr. Robinson thinks , James Russell Lowell 369 Battle of the King's Mill , Thomas Dunn English 370 The Siege of Chapultepec , William Haines Lytle 371 Illumination for Victories in Mexico , Grace Greenwood 371 The Crisis , John Greenleaf Whittier 372 The Volunteers , William Haines Lytle 374 CHAPTER VI Fourteen Years of Peace The Ship Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific , Francis Lieber 374 The War Ship of Peace , Samuel Lover 375 On the Defeat of Henry Clay , William Wilberforce Lord 376 On the Death of M. D'Ossoli and his Wife, Margaret Fuller , Walter Savage Landor 376 The Last Appendix to "Yankee Doodle," Unknown 376 Daniel Webster , Oliver Wendell Holmes 377 The Flag , James Jeffrey Roche 378 Kane , Fitz-James O'Brien 379 Herndon , S. Weir Mitchell 380 Blood is Thicker than Water , Wallace Rice 380 Baron Renfrew's Ball , Charles Graham Halpine 382 PART IV THE CIVIL WAR Battle-Hymn of the Republic , Julia Ward Howe 384 CHAPTER I The Slavery Question To William Lloyd Garrison , John Greenleaf Whittier 385 Clerical Oppressors , John Greenleaf Whittier 385 The Debate in the Sennit , James Russell Lowell 386 Ichabod , John Greenleaf Whittier 388 The Kidnapping of Sims , John Pierpont 388 The Kansas Emigrants , John Greenleaf Whittier 389 Burial of Barber , John Greenleaf Whittier 389 The Defence of Lawrence , Richard Realf 390 The Fight over the Body of Keitt , Unknown 391 Le Marais du Cygne , John Greenleaf Whittier 392 How Old Brown took Harper's Ferry , Edmund Clarence Stedman 393 The Battle of Charlestown , Henry Howard Brownell 395 Brown of Ossawatomie , John Greenleaf Whittier 396 Glory Hallelujah! or John Brown's Body , Charles Sprague Hall 397 John Brown , Edna Dean Proctor 397 John Brown: a Paradox , Louise Imogen Guiney 397 Lecompton's Black Brigade , Charles Graham Halpine 398 Lincoln, the Man of the People , Edwin Markham 399 Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline , Oliver Wendell Holmes 400 Jefferson D. , H. S. Cornwell 401 The Old Cove , Henry Howard Brownell 401 A Spool of Thread , Sophie E. Eastman 402 God save Our President , Francis DeHaes Janvier 403 CHAPTER II The Gauntlet Bob Anderson, my Beau , Unknown 403 On Fort Sumter , Unknown 403 Sumter , Edmund Clarence Stedman 404 The Battle of Morris' Island , Unknown 404 Sumter—A Ballad of 1861 , Unknown 405 The Fight at Sumter , Unknown 407 Sumter , Henry Howard Brownell 408 The Great Bell Roland , Theodore Tilton 408 Men of the North and West , Richard Henry Stoddard 409 Out and Fight , Charles Godfrey Leland 409 No More Words , Franklin Lushington 410 Our Country's Call , William Cullen Bryant 410 Dixie , Albert Pike 411 A Cry to Arms , Henry Timrod 411 " We Conquer or Die ," James Pierpont 412 " Call All ," Unknown 412 The Bonnie Blue Flag , Annie Chambers Ketchum 413 I give my Soldier Boy a Blade , Unknown 413 CHAPTER III The North gets its Lesson The Nineteenth of April , Lucy Larcom 414 Through Baltimore , Bayard Taylor 414 My Maryland , James Ryder Randall 415 Ellsworth , Unknown 416 Colonel Ellsworth , Richard Henry Stoddard 416 On the Death of "Jackson," Unknown 417 The Virginians of the Valley , Francis Orrery Ticknor 417 Bethel , A. J. H. Duganne 417 Dirge , Thomas William Parsons 419 Wait for the Wagon , Unknown 419 Upon the Hill before Centreville , George Henry Boker 420 Manassas , Catherine M. Warfield 423 A Battle Ballad , Francis Orrery Ticknor 424 The Run from Manassas Junction , Unknown 425 On to Richmond , John R. Thompson 426 Cast Down, but not Destroyed , Unknown 427 Shop and Freedom , Unknown 428 The C. S. A. Commissioners , Unknown 428 Death of the Lincoln Despotism , Unknown 429 Jonathan to John , James Russell Lowell 430 A New Song to an Old Tune , Unknown 432 CHAPTER IV The Grand Army of the Potomac Civil War , Charles Dawson Shanly 432 The Picket-Guard , Ethel Lynn Beers 433 Tardy George , Unknown 433 How McClellan took Manassas , Unknown 434 Wanted—A Man , Edmund Clarence Stedman 435 The Gallant Fighting "Joe," James Stevenson 436 Kearny at Seven Pines , Edmund Clarence Stedman 437 The Burial of Latané , John R. Thompson 437 The Charge by the Ford , Thomas Dunn English 438 Dirge for Ashby , Margaret Junkin Preston 439 Malvern Hill , Herman Melville 439 A Message , Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 440 Three Hundred Thousand More , James Sloan Gibbons 440 Cedar Mountain , Annie Fields 441 " Our Left ," Francis Orrery Ticknor 441 Dirge for a Soldier , George Henry Boker 442 The Reveille , Bret Harte 442 Beyond the Potomac , Paul Hamilton Hayne 443 Barbara Frietchie , John Greenleaf Whittier 444 Marthy Virginia's Hand , George Parsons Lathrop 445 The Victor of Antietam , Herman Melville 445 The Crossing at Fredericksburg , George Henry Boker 446 At Fredericksburg , John Boyle O'Reilly 447 Fredericksburg , Thomas Bailey Aldrich 449 By the Potomac , Thomas Bailey Aldrich 449 The Washers of the Shroud , James Russell Lowell 450 CHAPTER V The War in the West The Little Drummer , Richard Henry Stoddard 451 The Death of Lyon , Henry Peterson 453 Zagonyi , George Henry Boker 453 Battle of Somerset , Cornelius C. Cullen 454 Zollicoffer , Henry Lynden Flash 454 Boy Brittan , Forceythe Willson 455 Albert Sidney Johnston , Kate Brownlee Sherwood 456 Albert Sidney Johnston , Francis Orrery Ticknor 457 Beauregard , Mrs. C. A. Warfield 457 The Eagle of Corinth , Henry Howard Brownell 458 The Battle of Murfreesboro , Kinahan Cornwallis 459 Little Giffen , Francis Orrery Ticknor 460 The Battle Autumn of 1862 , John Greenleaf Whittier 460 CHAPTER VI The Coast and the River At Port Royal , John Greenleaf Whittier 461 Ready , Phœbe Cary 461 The Daughter of the Regiment , Clinton Scollard 462 The Turtle , Unknown 462 The Attack , Thomas Buchanan Read 463 The Cumberland , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 464 On Board the Cumberland , George Henry Boker 464 The Cumberland , Herman Melville 466 How the Cumberland went down , S. Weir Mitchell 466 The Cruise of the Monitor , George Henry Boker 467 The Sinking of the Merrimack , Lucy Larcom 468 The River Fight , Henry Howard Brownell 468 The Ballad of New Orleans , George Henry Boker 472 The Varuna , George Henry Boker 474 The Surrender of New Orleans , Marion Manville 475 Mumford , Ina M. Porter 476 Butler's Proclamation , Paul Hamilton Hayne 476 CHAPTER VII Emancipation To John C. Frémont , John Greenleaf Whittier 477 Astræa at the Capitol , John Greenleaf Whittier 478 Boston Hymn , Ralph Waldo Emerson 478 The Proclamation , John Greenleaf Whittier 480 Treason's Last Device , Edmund Clarence Stedman 480 Laus Deo , John Greenleaf Whittier 481 CHAPTER VIII The "Grand Army's" Second Campaign Mosby at Hamilton , Madison Cawein 482 John Pelham , James Ryder Randall 482 Hooker's Across , George Henry Boker 483 Stonewall Jackson's Way , John Williamson Palmer 483 Keenan's Charge , George Parsons Lathrop 484 " The Brigade must not know, Sir ," Unknown 485 Stonewall Jackson , Henry Lynden Flash 486 The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson , Sidney Lanier 486 Under the Shade of the Trees , Margaret Junkin Preston 486 The Ballad of Ishmael Day , Unknown 487 Riding with Kilpatrick , Clinton Scollard 488 Gettysburg , Edmund Clarence Stedman 489 The High Tide at Gettysburg , Will Henry Thompson 491 Gettysburg , James Jeffrey Roche 492 The Battle-Field , Lloyd Mifflin 492 John Burns of Gettysburg , Bret Harte 493 Kentucky Belle , Constance Fenimore Woolson 494 The Draft Riot , Charles de Kay 496 Lincoln at Gettysburg , Bayard Taylor 497 CHAPTER IX With Grant on the Mississippi Running the Batteries , Herman Melville 498 Before Vicksburg , George Henry Boker 499 Vicksburg , Paul Hamilton Hayne 499 The Battle-Cry of Freedom , George Frederick Root 500 The Black Regiment , George Henry Boker 500 The Ballad of Chickamauga , Maurice Thompson 501 Thomas at Chickamauga , Kate Brownlee Sherwood 502 Garfield's Ride at Chickamauga , Hezekiah Butterworth 503 The Battle of Lookout Mountain , George Henry Boker 505 The Battle in the Clouds , William Dean Howells 506 Charleston , Henry Timrod 507 The Battle of Charleston Harbor , Paul Hamilton Hayne 507 Bury Them , Henry Howard Brownell 508 Twilight on Sumter , Richard Henry Stoddard 509 CHAPTER X The Final Struggle Put it Through , Edward Everett Hale 509 Logan at Peach Tree Creek , Hamlin Garland 510 A Dirge for McPherson , Herman Melville 511 With Corse at Allatoona , Samuel H. M. Byers 511 Allatoona , Unknown 512 Sherman's March to the Sea , Samuel H. M. Byers 512 The Song of Sherman's Army , Charles Graham Halpine 513 Marching through Georgia , Henry Clay Work 513 Ethiopia Saluting the Colors , Walt Whitman 514 Sherman's in Savannah , Oliver Wendell Holmes 514 Savannah , Alethea S. Burroughs 514 Carolina , Henry Timrod 515 Charleston , Paul Hamilton Hayne 515 Romance , William Ernest Henley 516 The Foe at the Gates , John Dickson Bruns 516 Ulric Dahlgren , Kate Brownlee Sherwood 517 Lee to the Rear , John Randolph Thompson 518 Can't , Harriet Prescott Spofford 519 Obsequies of Stuart , John Randolph Thompson 519 A Christopher of the Shenandoah , Edith M. Thomas 520 Sheridan at Cedar Creek , Herman Melville 521 Sheridan's Ride , Thomas Buchanan Read 521 The Year of Jubilee , Henry Clay Work 522 Virginia Capta , Margaret Junkin Preston 523 The Fall of Richmond , Herman Melville 523 The Surrender at Appomattox , Herman Melville 524 Lee's Parole , Marion Manville 524 Robert E. Lee , Julia Ward Howe 524 CHAPTER XI Winslow and Farragut The Eagle and Vulture , Thomas Buchanan Read 525 Kearsarge and Alabama , Unknown 526 Kearsarge , S. Weir Mitchell 526 The Alabama , Maurice Bell 527 Craven , Henry Newbolt 527 Farragut , William Tuckey Meredith 528 Through Fire in Mobile Bay , Unknown 529 The Bay Fight , Henry Howard Brownell 530 "Albemarle" Cushing , James Jeffrey Roche 535 At the Cannon's Mouth , Herman Melville 537 CHAPTER XII The Martyr President Lincoln , S. Weir Mitchell 537 O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman 537 The Dead President , Edward Rowland Sill 538 Abraham Lincoln , Edmund Clarence Stedman 538 Pardon , Julia Ward Howe 539 The Dear President , John James Piatt 539 Abraham Lincoln , William Cullen Bryant 540 Abraham Lincoln , Richard Henry Stoddard 540 Parricide , Julia Ward Howe 542 Abraham Lincoln , Tom Taylor 543 CHAPTER XIII Peace " Stack Arms ," Joseph Blynth Alston 545 Jefferson Davis , Walker Meriwether Bell 545 In the Land where we were Dreaming , Daniel B. Lucas 546 Acceptation , Margaret Junkin Preston 547 The Conquered Banner , Abram J. Ryan 547 Peace , Adeline D. T. Whitney 547 Peace , Phœbe Cary 548 A Second Review of the Grand Army , Bret Harte 548 When Johnny comes marching Home , Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore 549 Driving Home the Cows , Kate Putnam Osgood 550 Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration , James Russell Lowell 550 PART V THE PERIOD OF EXPANSION The Eagle's Song , Richard Mansfield 558 CHAPTER I Reconstruction and After To the Thirty-Ninth Congress , John Greenleaf Whittier 559 " Mr. Johnson's Policy of Reconstruction ," Charles Graham Halpine 559 Thaddeus Stevens , Phœbe Cary 560 South Carolina to the States of the North , Paul Hamilton Hayne 561 Ku-Klux , Madison Cawein 562 The Rear Guard , Irene Fowler Brown 562 The Blue and the Gray , Francis Miles Finch 563 The Stricken South to the North , Paul Hamilton Hayne 564 How Cyrus laid the Cable , John Godfrey Saxe 565 The Cable Hymn , John Greenleaf Whittier 565 An Arctic Vision , Bret Harte 566 Alaska , Joaquin Miller 567 Israel Freyer's Bid for Gold , Edmund Clarence Stedman 567 Chicago , John Greenleaf Whittier 568 Chicago , Bret Harte 569 Chicago , John Boyle O'Reilly 569 Boston , John Boyle O'Reilly 570 The Church of the Revolution , Hezekiah Butterworth 570 After the Fire , Oliver Wendell Holmes 571 The Ride of Collins Graves , John Boyle O'Reilly 571 CHAPTER II The Year of a Hundred Years Our First Century , George Edward Woodberry 572 Centennial Hymn , John Greenleaf Whittier 573 The Centennial Meditation of Columbia , Sidney Lanier 573 Centennial Hymn , William Cullen Bryant 574 Welcome to the Nations , Oliver Wendell Holmes 574 The National Ode , Bayard Taylor 575 Our National Banner , Dexter Smith 578 After the Centennial , Christopher Pearse Cranch 578 CHAPTER III The Conquest of the Plains The Pacific Railway , C. R. Ballard 579 After the Comanches , Unknown 579 Down the Little Big Horn , Francis Brooks 580 Little Big Horn , Ernest McGaffey 581 Custer's Last Charge , Frederick Whittaker 582 Custer , Edmund Clarence Stedman 583 The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 583 Miles Keogh's Horse , John Hay 584 On the Big Horn , John Greenleaf Whittier 585 The "Grey Horse Troop," Robert W. Chambers 585 Geronimo , Ernest McGaffey 586 The Last Reservation , Walter Learned 586 Indian Names , Lydia Huntley Sigourney 587 CHAPTER IV The Second Assassination Rejoice , Joaquin Miller 587 The Bells at Midnight , Thomas Bailey Aldrich 588 J. A. G., Julia Ward Howe 589 Midnight—September 19, 1881 , John Boyle O'Reilly 589 At the President's Grave , Richard Watson Gilder 590 On the Death of President Garfield , Oliver Wendell Holmes 590 President Garfield , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 591 Yorktown Centennial Lyric , Paul Hamilton Hayne 592 The Brooklyn Bridge , Edna Dean Proctor 593 Brooklyn Bridge , Charles George Douglas Roberts 593 Charleston , Richard Watson Gilder 594 Mayflower , John Boyle O'Reilly 594 Fairest of Freedom's Daughters , Jeremiah Eames Rankin 594 Liberty Enlightening the World , Edmund Clarence Stedman 595 The Bartholdi Statue , John Greenleaf Whittier 595 Additional Verses to Hail Columbia , Oliver Wendell Holmes 596 New National Hymn , Francis Marion Crawford 596 In Apia Bay , Charles George Douglas Roberts 597 An International Episode , Caroline T. Duer 598 By the Conemaugh , Florence Earle Coates 599 The Man who rode to Conemaugh , John Eliot Bowen 599 A Ballad of the Conemaugh Flood , Hardwick Drummond Rawnsley 600 Conemaugh , Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 601 " The White City ," Richard Watson Gilder 602 The Kearsarge , James Jeffrey Roche 602 Tennessee , Virginia Fraser Boyle 603 An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial , Thomas Bailey Aldrich 603 The Klondike , Edwin Arlington Robinson 604 CHAPTER V The War with Spain Apostrophe to the Island of Cuba , James Gates Percival 606 The Gallant Fifty-One , Henry Lynden Flash 606 Cuba , Edmund Clarence Stedman 607 The Gospel of Peace , James Jeffrey Roche 607 Cuba , Harvey Rice 608 Cuba to Columbia , Will Carleton 608 Cuba Libre , Joaquin Miller 609 The Parting of the Ways , Joseph B. Gilder 609 The Men of the Maine , Clinton Scollard 609 The Word of the Lord from Havana , Richard Hovey 610 Half-Mast , Lloyd Mifflin 611 The Fighting Race , Joseph I. C. Clarke 611 On the Eve of War , Danske Dandridge 612 To Spain—A Last Word , Edith M. Thomas 612 The Martyrs of the Maine , Rupert Hughes 612 El Emplazado , William Henry Venable 613 Battle Song , Robert Burns Wilson 613 Greeting from England , Unknown 614 Battle Cry , William Henry Venable 614 Just One Signal , Unknown 614 Dewey at Manila , Robert Underwood Johnson 615 Dewey and his Men , Wallace Rice 617 " Off Manilly ," Edmund Vance Cooke 618 Manila Bay , Arthur Hale 618 A Ballad of Manila Bay , Charles George Douglas Roberts 618 The Battle of Manila , Richard Hovey 619 Dewey in Manila Bay , R. V. Risley 620 " Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin ," Madison Cawein 620 The Spirit of the Maine , Tudor Jenks 621 The Dragon of the Seas , Thomas Nelson Page 621 The Sailing of the Fleet , Unknown 622 " Cut the Cables ," Robert Burns Wilson 622 The Race of the Oregon , John James Meehan 624 Battle-Song of the Oregon , Wallace Rice 624 Strike the Blow , Unknown 625 Eight Volunteers , Lansing C. Bailey 626 The Men of the Merrimac , Clinton Scollard 626 The Victory-Wreck , Will Carleton 627 Hobson and his Men , Robert Loveman 627 The Call to the Colors , Arthur Guiterman 627 Essex Regiment March , George Edward Woodberry 628 The Gathering , Herbert B. Swett 629 Comrades , Henry R. Dorr 629 Wheeler's Brigade at Santiago , Wallace Rice 629 Deeds of Valor at Santiago , Clinton Scollard 630 The Charge at Santiago , William Hamilton Hayne 630 Private Blair of the Regulars , Clinton Scollard 631 Wheeler at Santiago , James Lindsay Gordon 631 Spain's Last Armada , Wallace Rice 632 Santiago , Thomas A. Janvier 633 The Fleet at Santiago , Charles E. Russell 634 The Destroyer of Destroyers , Wallace Rice 635 The Brooklyn at Santiago , Wallace Rice 636 The Rush of the Oregon , Arthur Guiterman 637 The Men behind the Guns , John Jerome Rooney 637 Cervera , Bertrand Shadwell 638 McIlrath of Malate , John Jerome Rooney 639 When the Great Gray Ships come in , Guy Wetmore Carryl 640 Full Cycle , John White Chadwick 640 Breath on the Oat , Joseph Russell Taylor 641 The Islands of the Sea , George Edward Woodberry 641 Ballade of Expansion , Hilda Johnson 642 " Rebels ," Ernest Crosby 643 On a Soldier fallen in the Philippines , William Vaughn Moody 643 The Ballad of Paco Town , Clinton Scollard 644 The Deed of Lieutenant Miles , Clinton Scollard 644 Aguinaldo , Bertrand Shadwell 645 The Fight at Dajo , Alfred E. Wood 645 An Ode in Time of Hesitation , William Vaughn Moody 646 CHAPTER VI The New Century A Toast to Our Native Land , Robert Bridges 649 Buffalo , Florence Earle Coates 649 McKinley , Unknown 649 Faithful unto Death , Richard Handfield Titherington 650 The Comfort of the Trees , Richard Watson Gilder 650 Outward Bound , Edward Sydney Tylee 650 Panama , James Jeffrey Roche 651 Darien , Edwin Arnold 651 Panama , Amanda T. Jones 652 A Song of Panama , Alfred Damon Runyon 652 Hymn of the West , Edmund Clarence Stedman 653 Britannia to Columbia , Alfred Austin 654 Those Rebel Flags , John H. Jewett 654 The Song of the Flags , S. Weir Mitchell 655 Arizona , Sharlot M. Hall 655 San Francisco , Joaquin Miller 657 San Francisco , John Vance Cheney 657 To San Francisco , S. J. Alexander 657 Resurge San Francisco , Joaquin Miller 658 Grover Cleveland , Joel Benton 658 Unguarded Gates , Thomas Bailey Aldrich 659 National Song , William Henry Venable 659 Ad Patriam , Clinton Scollard 660 O Land Beloved , George Edward Woodberry 660 The Republic , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 660 CHAPTER VII The World War Sonnets written in the Fall of 1914 , George Edward Woodberry 661 Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight , Vachel Lindsay 661 The "William P. Frye," Jeanne Robert Foster 662 The White Ships and the Red , Joyce Kilmer 663 Mare Liberum , Henry van Dyke 664 Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers fallen for France , Alan Seeger 664 Republic to Republic , Witter Bynner 666 To the United States of America , Robert Bridges 666 The Captive Ships at Manila , Dorothy Paul 666 The Road to France , Daniel Henderson 667 Pershing at the Tomb of Lafayette , Amelia Josephine Burr 667 Your Lad, and my Lad , Randall Parrish 668 A Call to Arms , Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews 668 The First Three , Clinton Scollard 669 To America, on her First Sons fallen in the Great War , E. M. Walker 670 Rouge Bouquet , Joyce Kilmer 670 Marching Song , Dana Burnet 671 Our Modest Doughboys , Charlton Andrews 671 Seicheprey 672 A Ballad of Redhead's Day , Richard Butler Glaenzer 672 Victory Bells , Grace Hazard Conkling 673 Epicedium , J. Corson Miller 673 The Dead , David Morton 674 The Unreturning , Clinton Scollard 674 The Star , Marion Couthouy Smith 674 Brest left behind , John Chipman Farrar 674 To the Returning Brave , Robert Underwood Johnson 675 The Return , Eleanor Rogers Cox 676 King of the Belgians , Marion Couthouy Smith 676 The Family of Nations , Willard Wattles 677 The League of Nations , Mary Siegrist 677 Beyond Wars , David Morton 678 " When there is Peace ," Austin Dobson 678 After the War , Richard Le Gallienne 678 NOTES 681 INDEX OF AUTHORS 699 INDEX OF FIRST LINES 705 INDEX OF TITLES 713

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